Discover some of the best new web design resources including tools, libraries, plugins, freebies, fonts, UI kits and many other goodies that we curated during July 2018.
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1. Tools & Utilities
VSCode Themes
A collection of some of the most popular themes for Visual Studio Code grouped by categories (Trending, Dark & Light).
UISources
A collection of popular web apps to help you get inspired from real, top-grossing apps.
Scale
A small tool to help you generate color scales in an instant.
cssgradient.io
A list of some of the most popular “gradient” websites on the web.
Cool Hue
Another collection of handpicked gradient hues and swatches for your next project.
Carbon
A nifty tool that generates beautiful screenshots of your code snippets.
Waveguide
Waveguide is a curated and searchable base of design knowledge.
2. Libraries
Dumper.js
Dumper.js is an improved variable inspector for your Node.js applications.
Sclack
A command line interface client for Slack written in Python.
Fusion.js
A plugin-based universal web framework from Uber that was built to address the folowing pain points: complex configurations, lack of good abstractions, brittlenesss resulting from tight coupling, testing difficulties and lack of flexibility.
Guess.js
A collection of libraries and tools to simplify predictive data-analytics driven approaches to improve UX on the web.
Kleur
A Node.js library that you can use to format terminal text with ANSI colors.
cheat.sh
A CLI tool that allows you to access the best community-driven cheat sheets.
fakescroll
A lightweight library that lets you create custom HTML scrollbars.
3. Freebies
Shards Dashboard Lite
Shameless plug: A free & modern admin dashboard template pack built on top of Bootstrap 4.
Westworld Slider
A slider pen created by Chris Gannon and inspired from the Westworld TV series.
Pure CSS Stack
The Stack game, written in pure CSS by Bence Szabó.
CSS 3D Toggle
A pure CSS 3D toggle created by Ana Tudor.
Clock Shop
A collection of clocks for your inspiration curated from Codepen.
4. UI Kits
Flight App Freebie
A free UI kit from Pixelz Studio perfect for any app that is managing flights.
5. Fonts
Chamuyo
A beautiful and modern display font from Caio Kondo.
Big John Pro
A bold and free font that you can use for both personal and commercial projects.
Calibre
A free, super-condensed font from Jeremy Vessey.
Austra
A free uppercase brush font from Gatis Vilaks.
Alaska
An abstract typeface free for both personal and commercial projects.
Lemon Bird
A free hand-drawn typeface designed by Ian Barnard.
Mathison
A beautiful and bold font by Gabriela Bury that is available for free.
Leira
A free, hand-drawn font from Evita Vilaka
8. Great Reads
- 📄[CSS Tricks] Delivering WordPress in 7KB
- 📄[CSS Tricks] Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
- 📄[Lou Downe] 15 principles of good service design
- 📄[Smashing Magazine] Pattern Library First: An Approach For Managing CSS
What are your favorite tools or resources? Did we miss anything? If you liked this roundup make sure you share it! 😁
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Check out the other monthly roundups for 2018:
- Resources for web designers and developers – January 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – February 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – March 2018
- Resources for web designers and developers – April 2018
- 30+ New resources for web developers and designers – May 2018
- 43+ Best new web design resources – June 2018
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